[Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places

[Jim Barbour]

So, this is not a new idea.  We've talked about it both in the NFBCS
division and the Research and development committee.

It's a very difficult hill to summit.

You can either fragment the problem, and try to convince each flat screen appliance manufacturer, appliances include these drink machines, to make their own app that controls their appliance.  You also meed to convince them to make the app accessible, and to keep the features of the app in parity with the features you get from using the machine without an app.

Or, you can centralize the problem and try to get all appliance manufacturers to agree on a standard communications system among mobile devices and appliances, so that one app can be developed that uses this standard system and control all the appliances that use it.

So far, there has been little traction on either front.

Sorry to deliver bad news on a Friday afternoon, I just wanted to move the conversation forward to the current state the world :)

Jim

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 03:59:57PM -0700, Drew Hunthausen via Electronics-talk wrote:
> I haven't seen one of these yet, but I wonder if there could be some kind of
> software or app created to allow smart phones to access the machine
> wirelessly, select what they want and pay for it all by the phone. 
> 
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> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
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> Subject: [Electronics-talk] getting your drinks at fastfood places
> 
> Hey guys. I don't know how many of you have seen these new touch-screen
> drink machines.
> 
> These are the machines that are completely flat screen, and have pages and
> pages of drinks and/or flavors to make your own combinations.
> 
> They are very cool but I haven not been able to find a way for blind peple
> to access them independently. I am pretty pissed that I can't get up and get
> my own drink anymore without having a sighted person or an employee waste
> time by helping me scroll through pages of flavors just to get a drink!
> 
> Anyone have any ideas about this or anything we could do to get these
> machines accessible?
> 
> I hope this isn't off topic
> 
> bb
> 
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